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Thomas Mann Fellows 2018

Prof. Dr. h. c. Jutta Allmendinger, Ph.D. is a German sociologist. After scientific stations - among others - at Harvard University, the LMU and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Prof. Allmendinger became President of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center in April 2007. In 2013 she received the Federal Cross first class of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2014, she received a Honorary Doctorate of the University of Tampere. | www.wzb.eu

1981-1983

Research Assistant, Center for Survey Design and Methodology, Mannheim. Head of project: Evaluation of Socio-Scientific Hiring Scales

Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Heinrich Detering is a German literary scholar, translator and poet and professor for modern German and Comparative Literary Studies. Detering runs the Thomas Mann Research Center in Göttingen and is the editor of the "Große kommentierte Frankfurter Ausgabe" of the works, letters and diaries of Thomas Mann. Since 2011 Detering is president of the German Academy for Language and Literature. | www.heinrichdetering.de

1959

Born in Neumünster

1979-1986

Studies of German Philology, Theology, Scandinavian Studies and Philosophy in Göttingen, Heidelberg and Odense

1988-1994

Assistant lecturer at the chair of Albrecht Schöne

1988

Doctorate

1993

Habilitation

1994-1995

Visiting professor for comparative studies at LMU Munich

1995-2005

Chair for Modern German Literature and Modern Nordic Literatures, Kiel

2001

Call for the Chair for Modern German Literary Studies, Bonn (succession Peter Pütz, rejected)

since 2005

Chair for Modern German and Comparative Literary Studies, Göttingen

Burghart Klaußner | Actor and author

Burghart Klaußner | Photo: Max Parovski

Burghart Klaußner graduated from the Max Reinhardt Drama School in Berlin and worked at the Schaubühne from 1970 to 1972. Subsequently, he played at Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Schiller-Theater and Maxim-Gorki-Theater in Berlin, and at playhouses in Frankfurt/Main, Bochum, and Zurich. He acted in numerous series and films, such as the Oscar®-nominated “The White Ribbon” which received the Palme d’or at the Cannes Film Festival. For his role in "The White Ribbon", Klaußner received the Best Actor Award from the German Film Critics Association in 2009. He is a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg and the German Film Academy, where he has been serving on the Board since 2010. Burghart Klaußner also works as a writer and director. | www.burghartklaussner.de

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Yiannos Manoli holds the Fritz Hüttinger Chair of Microelectronics, Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) at the University of Freiburg/Germany.

Manoli studied physics and mathematics at Lawrence University, Wisconsin. In 1980, he earned a Master of Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley. From 1985 on, he established the design group for microsystems and microcontroller integrated circuits at the newly founded Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems in Duisburg, Germany. In 1996, he was appointed Chair of Microelectronics at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken, Germany. In July of 2001, he transferred to the University of Freiburg, Germany. Since 2005, Manoli has been one of three co-directors of the Hahn Schickard Institute of Micromachining and Information Technology, Villingen-Schwenningen and Freiburg, Germany. | www.imtek.uni-freiburg.de